Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:01:58 +1100 (EST) From: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@chuckr.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to design a tablet driver? Message-ID: <20080306125012.X34358@klein.bigpond.com> In-Reply-To: <47CF4AFD.5050708@chuckr.org> References: <47CF4AFD.5050708@chuckr.org>
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Hi Chuck, On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: > I'm suggesting this because I'm very, very confused as to how I would > figure out what the screen size is for a vty. If I gotta do a absolute gig > on a bty, then I gotta find some way to ask the size of the cry, and get me > driver in the list of those to be notified if the size of a vty changes. I am not really an expert in this area. For personal interest I looked yesterday into the libvgl (e.g. VGLMouseStatus(1) and the other functions mentioned there). It seems to cooperate with syscons including mouse support. Somehow (for me "by magic" - I do not know how) Xorg seems to recognize a system mouse that is configured for the terminal. If someone explains this magic it may be helpful for you. My interest came from another angle. I tried to find out whether FreeBSD's infrastructure does not support displaying of more than one VTs at the time, as someone claimed. I would like to configure my laptop to use the small internal monitor as a text console while the external monitor is serving X. Regards Peter
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